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Bone Walker (2002)

Bone Walker (2002)

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0812589823 (ISBN13: 9780812589825)
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tor books

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A series written by the award-winning archaeological team Kathleen O’Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear. This couple has an incredible talent for bringing their field work on North American aboriginals into vivid focus. They develop their characters with such style you become certain you would know them if you met them on the street. Each book they have written draws a story around their own archaeological finds in such a way that they take you back to the fireside councils and the raging battle fields of peoples that lived on the continent nearly a millennia ago.In this series, the Gears develop a modern day story around an archaeological team involved in trying to unravel the mysteries of sites known to have been inhabited by the Anasazi, including which ones might actually relate to the Anasazi, and the meaning behind their art and artifacts. Rulers of an empire, there was a point in their history when drought drove them to despair so deep that they turned against their own gods and their own people. This is not light-hearted reading. As the modern day scientists try to fathom the disaster they have found in an ancient kiva, the past tugs at their reason and their emotions forcing them to reassess what they may or may not believe about the ancient gods they study. The books are written using side-by-side story lines of the past and present. The two interact to solve both central mysteries as well as several conflicts between the characters and their own past histories.I found this series truly “devouring.” It makes a statement about the assumptions and presumptions we take with us when we study those who came before us. Through the study of those that preceded us, we may be able to understand a bit more about ourselves. Sometimes it is easy to forget the power of belief and just how far it will drive the human spirit. It is best to remember…

A nice end to a great series. A lot of the "big reveals" were saved until the very end of the book and many of them I did not see coming. I had trouble getting through until about pg 300, then the pacing was a little wobbly until the last 200 pages really picked up the pace and I couldn't put it down then. My favorite parts are the ones written form the little girl, Piper's perspective. Next to that is Shadow's creepy perspective, and after that Catkin's perspective. Very different voices. Really enjoyed this.

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I loved this book! It's very long at nearly 600 pages, but well worth the time. The length is needed because it's telling two stories - one of the Anasazis 700 years in the past and one in current times in the American Southwest. The mystery and suspense in both tales is well done and addicting. The last 150 pages were spellbinding. :DMy only complaint about the book is the editing. They should fire their editor. Editing aside, I highly recommend this story for anyone interested in American Indian lore.
—Carol

Bone Walker (The Anasazi Mysteries, #3)Gear, Kathleen O'Neal *Gear, W. Michael The final third of the Anasazi Mystery series, one of the most mysterious and surprising books by these two outstanding writers. Dale is dead and Dusty's world has been turned upside down. There are many things he has not faced in his past, and those things include his mother and the man he believed stole his mother away. The hard truths are the toughest realities. But this story is not just the beginning of the real love story of Maureen and Dusty, but the ghosts of the past haunting all of them. Can Maureen and Dusty work through the clues and find out who is Kwewur, and stopping his homicidal crusade? Browser has killed his wife in defense of his best friend Catkin. He has injured the greatest witch if his time. He has begun a journey that will unravel all the efforts of Shadow Woman and Two Hearts. The sadistic, incestuous, malevolent, corrupting, consuming, power that is destroying his world. Can he save the ones he loves? Will he risk all to find a solution to the destruction of the Straight Path nation, or find somewhere to hide?
—Theresa

The Gears are the best at what they do, which is writing about pre-history based on archeology, creating a plausible fictional story to help us to understand the facts and thus preserve our own Native American history. Kathleen and Michael have been my lamplight in becoming a Native American historical fiction writer. They alone are responsible for peeking my interest in our dim past and have provided a window to that time and place of which they write. If you desire to see the past of our unknown history of the Native tribes of North America, I advise you to make all of the Gear's books your first choice. You can do no better. Kitty Sutton
—Kitty Sutton

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